Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Clooncona, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clooncona
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Childrens Burying Gd.
- Latest-edition OS map
- Childrens Burial Ground
- Coordinates
- 53.16084, -8.32072
- SMR number
- GA117-020001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Within the N half of the site of a rath (GA117-020----). Marked on the 1947 edition of the OS 6-inch map (1947) as an unenclosed oval area (c. 25m E-W; c. 20m N-S). On inspection a dense concentration of nettle and thistle growth marked the site. No grave-markers were evident.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 29 August 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.